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Bake 3 in m y new home and kitchen. Much improved!

Skibum's picture
Skibum

Bake 3 in m y new home and kitchen. Much improved!

My first bake was soft pull apart dinner rolls and they didn't turn out well. Now I have moved from a kitchen elevation of 4,420 ft above sea level to 2,600 feet. I was not getting the rise with the same amount of levain. Also moving from an electric convection to a non-convection oven gave different results.

I made two adjustments that worked out will for this bake. First I increased the liquid levain by 50% fromn66 grams to 102 grams for the same recipe. I also raised the bake temperature from 350F to 375F. I baked for 14 minutes with steam and 10 without. Next bake, I will back down to 12 minutes of steam. The rolls were a little over baked today, but with all the enrichment's, milk, honey and butter, they were still quite moist.

The extra levain gave me rise similar to what I had in Canmore. Two simple fixes and I am settling in to my new kitchen and oven!

Happy baking, cooking and eating friends! Ski

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kendalm's picture
kendalm

For a pic with them pulled apart with steam coming out while still warm !

Skibum's picture
Skibum

Too late for the steam shot. They were good though! Happy baking! Ski

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IceDemeter

It's so nice to see how a bit of experience makes the huge challenge of adapting to a new elevation and new oven and new everything in to a couple of little tweaks, and perfection!  It really is encouraging to us newbies that time and practice can make our "challenges" in to just something that needs a tweak...

Glad to see you settling in so well, and keep baking happy!

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Skibum

I made an educated guess and was pleased that things worked out. Stands to reason a non convection bake would need a higher temperature. It is nice when things work out! Believe me, I have had my share of bricks that were dumped.

Happy baking! Ski

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Mini Oven

stuff ferment longer.  You now have a longer play window on your bulk times and final proofs than at higher altitudes.  

I've got the same altitude here as in Austria just a whole mess of different local ingredients.  :)

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Skibum

I did notice the longer times at lower elevation. Definitely needed to bump the levain up 50% and did increase the proofing and bulk times. Slowly figuring it out. My last results were great. Now what to bake for bake four? I have so many on my to do list it will be hard to decide. Anyhow, enjoying my (comparatively) cavernous kitchen!

Happy baking, cooking and eating! Ski

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Mini Oven

it's almost scary!  Can you crawl into a bottom shelf on one end and crawl out around  to the other side?  

You can set up a baking cupboard area with no problems.  Have you found out which ones are warmer?  Like for a proofing cupboard?  I'm tall and love the upper cupboard spaces.  Right now I have only concrete tilled counter top and no shelves, upper or lower.  The space I have is cluttered and stacked.  Got to get to shelf making and I just got some slides or rails to install to make drawers, or sliding shelves below the counter top.  I have only two pair so I have to make the best of the situation.  The spaces are not Squared so this is going to be real fun!   

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Skibum

I could probably rent out half of my kitchen space. So many empty cupboards and SO much counter space. It really is quite a change from my last place. I am not complaining though. for an old ski bum that like to cook and bake it is a real luxury. My move from expensive Canmore, AB to Golden, BC has worked very well on every level!

Happy cooking and baking! Ski